By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – For Suzanne Fricke, art is as much about understanding place, history and culture as it is about what hangs on a gallery wall. An art historian, curator and educator, Fricke has spent much of her career studying and championing contemporary art from the Southwest, with a particular focus on […]
Art & Artists
Posted inAlbuquerque
3 Questions with ABQ abstract artist Alex Ponca Stock
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper – Artist Alex Ponca Stock explores the beauty of being alive and what death can teach us in Particle and the Wave: Oracles and Symbols for Living and Dying, her solo exhibition at Richard Levy Gallery in Downtown Albuquerque. The show features eight abstract works combining painting and beadwork, drawing […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Sandia Heights artists open their doors this weekend to show off their studios
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – For one weekend in September, homes throughout Sandia Heights will open their doors to art lovers as 40 local artists share everything from oil paintings and pottery to jewelry, woodworking and mixed-media pieces. The annual Sandia Heights Artists Studio Tour brings artists together across 13 stops in the neighborhood, […]
Posted inPlacitas
Placitas gallery to showcase art inspired by NM’s disappearing waters
By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. New Mexico’s rivers, lakes and irrigation ditches get the elegy-and-love-letter treatment next month, when Wild Hearts Gallery in Placitas opens an exhibit built from wax, pigment and photographs of water that may not always be there. “The River Runs Through Me,” featuring photo encaustic work by artist Dana Patterson Roth, […]
Posted inCorrales
Recycling rides: A creative new life for discarded bicycles in Corrales
By Rodd Cayton The cycling community in Corrales is among the village’s best-known constituencies. Corrales even has a Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission to look out for those who use the machines to commute, run errands and stay fit. Commission member Stevie Kuenzler wants to make the village’s love for bikes more apparent. He and […]
Posted inAlbuquerque
All of Burque’s a Stage: The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival Returns
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – The New Mexico Shakespeare Festival is returning this summer with two productions that organizers say speak directly to modern audiences while continuing the festival’s tradition of accessible outdoor theater. This year’s lineup includes Shakespeare’s political tragedy Julius Caesar and the romance The Winter’s Tale. Performances will once again take […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Art & Artists, Community News, NM.news
Gnarliest Gathering
By Michael Hodock, The Paper. – As North America’s biggest powwow stages its “last dance,” one of Burque’s highest flying events might also be reaching its pinnacle. This Saturday at Los Altos Skatepark (10140 ½ Lomas Blvd. NE), The All Nations Skate Jam is rounding up the city’s sickest skaters and most provocative punkers to […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Art & Artists
Theatre 3 Contemplates Love in “How the Stars Used to Shine There”
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. — A decade after it was first written, How the Stars Used to Shine There is finally getting a fresh life on stage at Theatre 3. Co-written by Michelle Lawson-Hughes and Jenny Hoffman, the play explores what happens after a relationship ends and what might be said if two people had one […]
Posted inAlbuquerque, Art & Artists
Women Who Run ABQ: Liz McKenzie is creating, connecting and finding meaning through it all
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales — In Albuquerque, Liz McKenzie is not easy to define. She is a chef, a baker, a business owner, a musician and an ultrarunner. But when asked who she is beyond all of that, her answer starts somewhere deeper. “I like to reflect a lot and just kind of see how far […]
Posted inArt & Artists
Writer/Journalist Probes His Family’s, His State’s and the Very Universe’s connection to Atomic History
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper — Albuquerque writer and journalist Ty Bannerman begins his new book with a personal question. Where do we come from, and how does history shape who we become? In his memoir Nuclear Family, Bannerman explores those questions by tracing his family’s connection to one of the most consequential scientific developments in […]